"On her 56th birthday, Carol Burnette woke up to news that her friend and mentor Lucille Ball had died. Flowers arrived later with a note that said “Happy Birthday, Kid. Love Lucy.” "
"Electricity was introduced to Ethiopia in 1896 after Emperor Menelik II ordered two newly invented electric chairs as a form of humane capital punishment and realized they were useless in his country without electricity."
"In his last will and testament, Adam Yauch (MCA of the Beastie Boys) left instructions that his music could not be used in advertising."
"Ted Bundy, handling his own defense, asked a character witness to marry him during his trial in Florida. Due to an obscure state law, when she said “yes” on the stand their marriage was considered legal."
"Someone took all the details from the Ice Cube song Today Was a Good Day to figure out which day it took place on and the song took place on January 20th, 1992."
"The area surrounding Cape Canaveral was given the area code 321, like a launch countdown, after someone discovered that number was not in use. "
"The word ‘infant’ comes from the Latin word ‘infans’, meaning “unable to speak” or “speechless.”"
"The chief of Police in St. Paul let mobsters like Machine Gun Kelly, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson live in the city as long as they didn’t commit any crimes there. They were also protected from extradition and tipped off of any federal raids. "
"The last Olympic gold medals entirely made out of gold were awarded in 1912. "
"In 2014, scientists created Vantablack, a substance made from carbon nanotubes, which absorbs 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum making it the blackest substance known. "
"Beelzebufo, a.k.a. the Frog From Hell, is the largest known frog species to have ever lived. Its diet may have included juvenile dinosaurs. "
"Nigerian startups and digital entrepreneurs often hide or change their IP addresses so that prospective foreign clients and funders can’t immediately identify that they’re working from Nigeria due to its negative scam reputation."
"When helium is cooled to almost absolute zero, the lowest temperature possible, it becomes a liquid with surprising properties. It can flow against gravity and will start running up and over the lip of a glass container. "
"The last private owner of Stonehenge, upon gifting it to the public, stipulated that the public should never have to pay “a sum exceeding one shilling” per visit."
"In Japan’s Shima Marineland aquarium, a goldfish was thrown into an exhibition tank as a live-bait for a larger fish. The goldfish escaped through a tiny gap that led to a filtration tank, where it lived alone in the dark for 7 years, feeding off food scraps that made its way into the tank."
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